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NOTFATCAT 1/15/12 4:34 PM	Do You Want Your Blogs Shared by OTHERS on Facebook??? Your Spark People blog page now has a "Share" bar at the top of the blog. That means if someone likes your blog entry they can "share" it on their Facebook wall! If you like this new feature, then don't worry about doing anything. BUT, if you don't want this "Share bar" feature you can remove it from your blog page and keep others from sharing your blogs. Just do this: Go to your SparkPage. Click to Edit the page. On the top Un-check "Show share bar on my blog posts". Save your changes. And, perhaps you should go onto the technical site message board and tell Spark People what you think of this feature.
NOTFATCAT 5/13/11 3:03 PM	Food Tracker Improvements Get ready for change: Monday you will see a new Food Tracker that is supposed to be easier to use than the current one.
NOTFATCAT 1/25/11 12:33 PM	Chain e-mails are not a Spark thing Hi everyone This is just a friendly reminder to please not pass along "chain" type SparkMails or comments on your SparkPage. There's one going around right now about being a beautiful person and passing it along to 3 other people you know. It's nice in theory, but can easily get out of hand. I'd ask that you spread the word to prevent things like this from continuing. Thanks! Coach Jen
NOTFATCAT 1/8/11 3:32 PM	Team page changes Received notice today that all the team pages are changing. Supposedly per member and leader suggestions. Check out the changes when they arrive, use them, then give feedback on the technical message board.
NOTFATCAT 10/29/10 11:21 AM	Team Goal Tracking Simplified For those long time team members........if you want to simplify the tracking of your team goals from entering numbers to just a check mark on your Other Goals page you need to do this.... On your Other Goals page click Remove team goals. Then go back into the team page and and Join whatever team goalsyou wish to track. This will make the change from numbers to check marks since Mongo change the format a couple weeks ago.
GUINEFORT 11/1/09 12:38 PM	Results are in for the 'great pumpkin challenge'!!!!!! See who is our Great Pumpkin for this year!! Hi Everyone! After looking over all the posts, it looks as though everyone is caught up and have posted their final results! I must say EVERYONE did a fantastic Job! The results are: KATIEWELL- 2724, lost 3 pounds!! GATOR12- 2249, lost 1.5 pounds!! JOHAL52 - 1769, no gain!! JEANELLEN59 - 1541, no gain! KATIEWELL is our Great Pumpkin for this Halloween!! Great job Katie and everyone!! Val had wanted to continue this challenge on her own so if any of you want to follow her I Put a New Ongoing Challenge on the Team today. It is called "The Ongoing Maintenance Challenge". It won't have a sticky on it, but it will always be there as are the other ongoing challenges. I'm glad you all enjoyed this challenge. You did a fantastic job!! Keep moving...lol!! Hugs, Von
GUINEFORT 10/24/09 9:49 AM	50+ Maintainers Team 1 year Anniversary! Yesterday was our team's one year anniversary!! Thanks to all of you that have made our team a success!
GUINEFORT 10/5/09 2:32 PM	If you can't find your favorite topic thread.... If you can't find your favorite topic/thread that you have been posting in look under the forum it was in and click "select more topics". All the threads are always still there just hidden underneath. I hope this helps. If you have any questions, please spark mail me. --Von
GUINEFORT 10/1/09 3:08 PM	Sat. October 3rd starts this years Great Pumpkin Challenge!! Sign up now to have fun and be healthy! Here is the daily template for the challenge. Read the challenge thread for all the instructions. Have fun!! BLANK TEMPLATE (cut, copy & paste each day) Day# 1 Total points for today: Total points to date: weight today: Chest: Waist: Hips: Calorie/Point Range: 1. Drank 8 glasses of water today- 2. Had 5 fruits and veggies today- 3. Stayed within my point calorie range today- 4. Had multivitamin today- 5. Did 10 min of stretch today- 6. Did 30 min cardio today- 7. Did daily exercise of the day today- reps ?, Sets? 8. Had Nothing to eat after 8 pm today (or 2 hours before bed) - 9. Had 8 hours of sleep last night- 10. Post at least once today using the pumpkin emoticon at the end of my post. - 11. Found someones Pumpkin Icon and said who and where they posted it today. -
NEW_CHAPTER 5/31/09 7:21 PM	31 Days to Stronger Bones May Challenge Winner Congratulations to all who participated in the 31 Days to Stronger Bones Challenge. The winners were: Mongo2six with 64 points! Wow! Jeriberi1 with 23 points and Teniswhiz with 14 points
GUINEFORT 5/13/09 11:36 AM	Sign up now for the WOMAN Challenge!! Join in the fun! The Woman Challenge - May 10th - July 4th Sign up is: Now ------------------------------- ------ I know May 10th was Sunday but this is a wonderful challenge that the SparkStars have done for 3 years now. Last year was the first year The 50+ maintainers participated. We still have time to join and put our activity minutes in for this week, there is no rush. Sign up is now and activity posting is going on now for this week. Our Team Challenge will start on the 10th. Our Team is called SparkStars. Check out the site and see how fun it looks. www.womenshealth.gov/woman/index.cfm What it is about: On May 10th, thousands of women across the country will embark on an eight-week physical activity challenge for better health. The Woman Challenge encourages women to get at least 2 hours and 30 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity each week. This year it has changed and is not recorded in pedometer steps, but in activity minutes. www.womenshealth.gov/woman/index.cfm How Do I Get Started? 1. Register – Register online now — it's quick and easy! Make sure your start date is MAY 10th. 2. Set a Goal – Set a weekly goal for how many minutes of moderate- and vigorous-intensity activity you want to complete. You can also set a goal for how many days of muscle-strengthening activities you want to complete. 3. Enter Your Activities – After completing an activity, enter it online. You can even keep track of what type of activity you did. For example, walked to the store or biked 2 miles. 4. View Your Progress – Watch your progress throughout the week as you move closer to meeting your goal. You can even compare your progress from one week to the next using the new progress graphs. 5. Earn Awards – Earn up to 6 new awards each week. Are you an Activity Champion? Or maybe you're a Quiz Mastermind? Find out each week! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are lots of tools to help you along the way. And it is alot of fun! Go to the link above and register yourself with a public profile. I will have to register you for the SPARKSTARS team after you register at the WOMAN Challenge. (It is a private team only we will be there, so I may have to enter you) (Let me know what is the user name you used to register and I will find you) I use VGuinefort. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Any questions just post them here. Sign up here also after you have registered so I know to add you to the SPARKSTAR Team. Good Luck and have fun!! Von
MONGO2TEN 5/6/09 3:05 PM	April Maintainer Challenge Winners Congratulations to the April Maintainer Challenge Winners. Lynn came in first with 270 points and Sannji came in second wiht 210 points. Way to go ladies!
GUINEFORT 4/1/09 10:49 AM	MARCH CHALLENGE WINNERS!!! Two Challenges winners for March: -30 Days to a Healthier Diet Challenge JERIBERI1 = 41 posts -March St. Patrick's Day Challenge MARYANN1943 1,096 points! Ladies!! See all details in the Team Goals Thread!
GUINEFORT 4/1/09 10:47 AM	Announcing Team Goal winners for March!! Team Goal winners for March: 1. Get in your daily multivitamin!STILLFLYIN 31 MNNICE 31 2. DAILY EXERCISE GOALS! ONESOFTBLONDE 2125 3. fruits and Vegetables! LOTSACATSME 231 4. LOVE YOUR TEAM! JERIBERI1 32 5. Drink your water! STILLFLYIN 405 See all details in the Team Goals Thread!
GUINEFORT 3/31/09 11:12 PM	2 new challenges starting tomorrow! April 1st is tomorrow and we will be introducing 2 new challenges: 30 Days to a Greener Lifestyle Challenge for April 30 Day Maintainer Challenge for April Join in! They both look to be fun and motivating! Von, Nancy & Lynn
GUINEFORT 3/31/09 10:24 AM	Today! Update your Team Goals and Spark Points This afternoon I will be calculating all the team goal posts to see how we all did as a team and as individuals. So please update your TEAM GOAL posts. Also I will be checking and posting the Spark Points for the Team to see how we have done. In the next few days I will post the winners of the March Challenges and also the results of the Team goals and Spark points. Von
GUINEFORT 3/29/09 2:26 PM	End of Month Reminders.... Hi everyone! Remember to update your challenges and your team goal posts by March 31st, so we can see who the leaders are!
GUINEFORT 3/10/09 3:41 PM	Big Community feature next week-Mar.16th Hi everyone We are launching a pretty big Community feature next week,(the 16th) a "Friend Feed" that shows the activity of all your friends in one place. Before the launch though we are going to make the "privacy settings" page for this feature available, so people can opt out of this feature if they would like. You can click the link below to learn more about this new feature. Thanks! Dave H SparkpPeople www.sparkpeople.co m/resource/motivation_articles.asp?id= 1288
GUINEFORT 3/10/09 3:36 PM	Mar 10th SP Change to our team Page... As you have probably noticed we have a new look to our 50+ Maintainers Home page. From SP Dave: Hi everyone We're very happy to announce some bigger changes to the SparkTeams page today. You'll notice some new tabs and features towards the top of the page: 1) The "New" tab shows new Announcements, Photos, Links, and Blogs 2) Announcements can be posted by SparkTeam Leaders. We encourage you to use this to tell your team about new challenges, new guidelines, or anything else. We hope in some instances you can use Announcements in place of sticky topics. 3) Photos can be added by ANY member of the Team! Others can also comment on photos. 4) Links can be added by ANY member of the Team. You can add links both to pages within SparkPeople as well as outside links. Members can then vote on if they liked links (to move them up the list) and also report if they feel a link doesn't belong on the Team. (Note to leaders, links you added to the Team in the past have been added to this new Links section.) 5) The blogs tab moved the old Blog section up the page. This shows all blog posts recently added by members of the Team. 6) We re-formatted the Huddle a bit to help everything fit on the page. We hope you like these features and that they help your Team be more effective and communicate more!